Insidious.

Everyone knows this but nobody actually dares to say it out loud, but the largest of catastrophies. injustices and phenomenons start from the smallest and most insignificant of ideas. As I’m sure many a wise man have been quoted, “Even the tallest tree was once a sapling”, “Even the strongest man was born a baby” or “Even the Godfather was bullied as a kid”.

 

The message is simple, and yet consistently ignored, as people are too busy dealing with the huge boulder in front of them to notice the fire ants crawling up their feet. The argument is that the huge problem is huge NOW, while you can afford to let the little ones fester for a while.

 

This is almost always wrong.

 

See, leaving a large problem there would almost never cause it to get even worse. And even if it did, if you could tag a mathematical value to a problem it would grow by a fraction of it’s actual size. While small problems multiply in gravity several times before people actually sit up and realise it. The Afghans were considered small people with moustaches and turbans and accents to be made fun of before a couple of them woke up one day and decided they would fly an aeroplane into the two tallest objects that happened to be in the area. Puddles of water were simply nuisances to be avoided until people realised the mosquitoes that bred in the were a real pain in the ass. Parents only realise it’s too late when their child goes wayward. Indeed, the tiniest rash eventually evolves into the fatal tumour. Which, unless you watch too many hospital dramas, should not be literally true.

 

Obviously, the inverse is true for the good stuff too. Whoever thought that 26 different characters, arranged and rearranged and spaced out with random dots and strokes in between them, would spawn so many different languages and enchant so many people? This is where I would point at the apple-on-Isaac-Newton’s head story, but I sincerely doubt that actually happened, since an apple falling on one’s head from a tree would ordinarily make someone stupider, as opposed to igniting the flash of genius that would put him into record books as the physicist’s idol(which isn’t saying much.). It’s actually much more likely that the apple fell beside him and he got a big shock and screamed and ran home, inventing the concept of gravity to deviate himself away from the notion that the September Apple Demons(SAD) were after him, and he got really lucky.

 

Well. I’m obviously a sore loser.